Food shop costs?

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Re-doing our household budget, and trying to understand if we are being extravagant or not with our food shop.

How much do you spend in a month on your food shopping? And for context, how many are in your household, and roughly where are you?

We are a family of 4, two under 5s. Central belt of Scotland.

Both of us work full time, so there is not a lot of efficiency in terms of batch cooking etc - DH reckons £800-1000 per month, which I'm horrified by as we are not particularly comfortable.

About £65 a week for two adults. Meat maybe once a month, but lots of fish, prawn, and veg curries. Our veg is from the local market (£20 -£25 a week) because its low or no packaging.
We do use the community fridge occasionally, like this week we had stacks of free veg so will skip the market this week.

family of two, occasional dc visit.
approx 450 per month
top up a fair bit on my way home

We spend £500 per month for 3 adults, DD2 needs lots of food because she was malnourished. She was working in her Uni city. Long hours and too tired to eat so had a panini on the way to work. She is recovering.

£100 a week for 2 adults for food, basic toiletries and cleaning products. This covers food Mon-Fri plus breakfast and snacks for the weekend. We eat out for lunch and dinner on a weekend.

We don’t drink anything except filtered tap water

We eat healthily. 5 fruit and veg a day, dairy products, meat/fish, beans/pulses, nuts/seeds, whole grains, sourdough bread.

Expecting a baby and think the costs will add £50 a week for milk, nappies, wipes and baby toiletries.

Some people prefer to have fresh food.

Such a weird rude comment. What about my post makes you think we don't have fresh food? The only things I mention buying are fruit, milk and ketchup

We spend similiar, including cat food, all toileteries, hair dye and expensive conditioner. For food we always have fish twice a week, one daily, do the whole 8 a day, 30 differrent whole foods a week, eat a lot of fresh berries and cater for a couple of different dietry needs - One veggie, one low carbing, try to reduce UPF but kids will only drink oatley milk. And school dinners for one child.

Family of 4,£800 a month from Tesco but that doesn’t buy a lot,we tried Aldi but the quality was terrible.

That should be one oily fish a week, not one daily

Myself a teenager who is bulking and a pre teen, average £80 a week. No alcohol.

We spend around 130 but that’s no alcohol and we tend to shop in Lidl

During the week kids get a hot meal so at home only snack type things -
one night a week lately we do pasta and pesto

I batch cook so I bulk cook bolognese and stews and curries. We do eat salmon or steak once a week and on a Sunday I slow cook w roast beef but that meat lasts two days

@Itiswhatitis80 without my glasses on I read that as £4800 a month!!

We are term time empty nesters with a small cat and I've just cut my working hours. Online Tesco shop is usually below £40 - can be much less. I buy coffee separately and wine is usually separate too (though alcohol free beer is included). No takeaways (no-one interesting delivers out to the middle of nowhere and it's cold by the time you drive it home). I never even used to think about it and would waste food. This week I've thrown out a tiny bit of coriander and one droopy carrot. Click and collect definitely works better for me.

When all 4 children and their partners are home it gets quite expensive!

I'm in London and just shop for my husband and one cat. I feel quite relieved if I keep my weekly Ocado delivery to £150, but I usually do a couple of top up shops each month as well.

Family of 4 adults, 2 cats and a dog, Scottish Highlands. I’m £200 a month on Amazon subscription for cat and dog food and toiletries etc and around £150 a week for food. The last 4 weeks I’ve kept to under £100 in the supermarket but the fridge is seriously empty tonight (shopping comes tomorrow) and I’ve just had the last of the ham in a sandwich for dinner so this weeks shop is £140.

Mainly two adults, but DD and her BF here for cooked approx twice a week. I spend approx £250 on food, toiletries, cleaning products, cat food and alcohol (a couple of times a week). We don't go without and eat well, although I admit to eating a couple of cakes this week and will have a few crisps before the week is out!